244 ACANTHACEAE. Vor. ITI. 
inflorescence mostly cymose or spicate, the involucres subtending 1 flower or several. Calyx 
4-5-cleft, the lobes linear or subulate. Corolla-tube slender, slightly enlarged above, the 
limb conspicuously 2-lipped ; upper lip erect, concave, interior in the bud, entire or 2-3-toothed ; 
lower lip spreading, entire or 3-toothed. Stamens 2; anther-sacs parallel, sometimes unequal, 
separated by a narrow connective. Style filiform; ovules 2 in each cavity of the ovary. 
Capsule flattened, ovate or suborbicular, sessile or stipitate, 2-4-seeded. Placentae separating 
elastically from the walls of the capsule. Seeds compressed, nearly orbicular. 
About 60 species, natives of warm and tropical regions. Besides the following, 4 others occur 
in the southern and southwestern United States. Type species: Justicia chinensis L. 
1. Diapedium brachiatum (Pursh) 
Kuntze. Diapedium. Fig. 3896. 
Justicia brachiata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 13. 1814. 
Dicliptera brachiata Spreng. Syst. 1: 86. 1825. 
D. brachiatum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 485. 1891. 
Annual (?), glabrate, or pubescent; stem 
slender, 6-grooved, erect, much branched, 1°-2° 
high. Leaves ovate, membranous, long-petioled, 
acuminate or acute at the apex, narrowed or 
rounded at the base, 3’-6’ long, 1-3’ wide; 
inflorescence paniculate, the involucres I-4- 
flowered, each of 2 oblong or obovate, obtuse 
or mucronate, opposite bracts; corolla 8-12” 
long, pink or purple, the lips about as long as 
the slender tube; upper lip 2-3-toothed, the 
lower entire; capsule oblong, 2’-3” high, a 
little longer than the involucre, the valves 
slightly divergent in dehiscence, the placentae 
remaining attached to their summits. 
In moist thickets, North Carolina to Florida, 
Missouri, Kansas and Texas. July—Oct. 
Family 34. PHRYMACEAE Schauer 
in DC. Prodr. 11: 520. 1847. 
LopsEED FAMILY. 
An erect perennial herb with divaricate branches, opposite membranous simple 
leaves, and small irregular purplish flowers, distant in slender elongated spikes. 
Calyx cylindric, 2-lipped; upper lip 2-cleft, the teeth setaceous; lower lip much 
shorter, 3-toothed, the teeth subulate. Corolla-tube cylindric, the limb 2-lipped; 
upper lip erect, concave, emarginate; lower lip larger, spreading, convex, 3-lobed, 
the lobes obtuse. Stamens 4, didynamous, included. Ovary oblique, 1-celled; 
ovule I, orthotropous, ascending; style slender; stigma 2-lobed. Calyx reflexed 
in fruit, enclosing the dry achene, becoming prominently ribbed, closed and its 
teeth hooked at the ends. Cotyledons convolute; radicle superior. 
Consists of the following monotypic genus of eastern 
North America, eastern and central Asia. [Name un- 
explained.] 
1. PHRYMA L. Sp. Pl. 6or. 1753. 
1, Phryma Leptostachya L. Lopseed. 
Fig. 3897. 
Phyrma Leptostachya L. Sp. Pl. 601. 1753. 
Puberulent; stem 14°-3° high, somewhat 4-sided, 
sometimes constricted above the nodes, branched 
above, the branches slender, elongated, divergent. 
Leaves ovate, acute or acuminate at the apex, obtuse 
of narrowed at the base, very thin, coarsely dentate, 
2'-6" long, the lower petioled, the upper often nearly 
sessile; spikes very narrow, 3-6’ long; flowers about 
3” long, mostly opposite, distant, borne on very short 
minutely 2-bracteolate pedicels, at first erect, soon 
spreading, the calyx, after flowering, abruptly re- 
flexed against the axis of the spike. 
In woods and thickets, New Brunswick to Manitoba, 
Florida and Kansas. Bermuda. Eastern Asia. June—Aug. 
